How common is the surname Zoellner?

1,474 people in the United States had the surname Zoellner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,461 Americans. It ranked 18,660th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Zoellner?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Zoellner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Zoellner getting more or less common?

More common. 1,416 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,474 in 2010, up 4.1%.

The surname Zoellner

A German occupational surname, carried by 1,474 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex Z456

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Zoellner is more common than 88.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

Occupational surname, borrowed from German Zöllner (“customs officer”).

Zoellner is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,474 people named Zoellner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 209,461 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,416.

#18,660

rank among US surnames

1,474

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #18,135)

Who is named Zoellner

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

97% of people named Zoellner identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Zoellner

Zoellner has the Soundex code Z456, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Z456.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Zoellner come from?: Occupational surname, borrowed from German Zöllner (“customs officer”).
How common is the surname Zoellner?: 1,474 people in the United States had the surname Zoellner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,461 Americans. It ranked 18,660th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Zoellner?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Zoellner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Zoellner?: Zoellner is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Zoellner getting more or less common?: More common. 1,416 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,474 in 2010, up 4.1%.